Overview#

Encapsulation is one of the four fundamentals of Object-oriented Programming

Encapsulation refers to the bundling of data with the methods that operate on that data.

Encapsulation is used to hide the values or state of a structured data object inside a class, preventing unauthorized parties' direct access to them. Publicly accessible methods are generally provided in the class (so-called getters and setters) to access the values, and other client classes call these methods to retrieve and modify the values within the object.[1]

More Information#

There might be more information for this subject on one of the following:

• Abstraction
• Object-oriented Programming
• Software design

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• [#1] - Encapsulation computer programming - based on information obtained 2017-04-18-